First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net. Watch by clicking below.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
Children Need Congress and the Administration to Preserve the Promise of Olmstead For more than a quarter century, the…
Universal coverage for children is an achievable, overdue national commitment. Child advocates envision a future for children’s coverage that…
Medicaid funding cuts are already threatening children’s health coverage. With 3 million children projected to lose coverage by 2036…
Lawmakers kick off events with landmark legislation First Focus Campaign for Children leads fellow advocates to Capitol Hill next…
“It delays all kinds of services,” said Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus on Children, a bipartisan policy advocacy…
Advocates urge Congress to stop the crisis First Focus on Children and fellow advocates are urging Congress to address…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
